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Agreeing upon group values is a step that "sets the tone" for further work. This is a convenient warm-up activity for a group and most commonly involves brainstorming a list and then picking a "top-ten." Spence recommends [1] that this is a high-priority item for the first meeting. Values may be grouped into categories, but each is up to debate:
Brainstorming is a creativity technique in which a group of people interact to suggest ideas spontaneously in response to a prompt. Stress is typically placed on the volume and variety of ideas, including ideas that may seem outlandish or "off-the-wall".
Brainstorming aims to encourage the generation of new and unusual ideas in a group of people. Alex Osborn based his development of brainstorming on the Indian technique Prai-Barshana, which has been around for about 400 years. He named brainstorming after the idea of this method, namely "using the brain to storm a problem."
Another important area of research is the group allocation method or make up of the group, and the possible benefits of multicultural, different skills, or educational attainment. [ 8 ] Group size can also effect the way small group share and learning together, for instance a size of group over 7 tends to split into smaller groups, and may need ...
Creativity techniques are methods that encourage creative actions, whether in the arts or sciences. They focus on a variety of aspects of creativity, including techniques for idea generation and divergent thinking, methods of re-framing problems, changes in the affective environment and so on.
This metaphor of using an imaginary hat or cap as a symbol for a different thinking direction was first mentioned by De Bono as early as 1971 in his book "Lateral Thinking for Management" when describing a brainstorming framework. [2] These metaphors allow for a more complete and elaborate segregation of the thinking directions.
Once the brainstorming session is over, the group can evaluate the ideas and narrow them down to the best ones. Idea mapping: This process begins with brainstorming a central idea and then developing said idea by adding related concepts and details. The result is a map or diagram that visually captures the relationships between ideas.
Knowledge work requires continuous learning on the part of the knowledge worker, but equally continuous teaching on the part of the knowledge worker. Productivity of the knowledge worker is not — at least not primarily — a matter of the quantity of output. Quality is at least as important.